Current News, Field Reports and Volunteer Voices

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Prepare food for children in Peru

Reaching Children's Potential, Volunteer Voices Peru

Preparing Food at the Largest Children’s Home in Peru

Volunteers prepare food for children in Peru: A journal entry by a volunteer serving at PPA, the largest children's home in Peru. Today at the PPA (Puericultorio Perez Aranibar children's home), we are going to help prepare food for children…

Our painted ice cream buckets for planting on campus

Volunteer Voices

Connecting With the Students

Team Journal Entry for Tuesday, March 8 Breakfast was delicious. I read the Message of the Day to remind us of “where we are and why we are here.” Then we heard Bill’s surgically precise journal entry for Monday. After breakfast,…

Costa Rica volunteer Barb in conversational English class with students

Volunteer Voices

Our First Day of Service at Colegio

Team Journal Entry for Monday, March 7, 2016 Breakfast at 7 a.m. Morning message and then off to Colegio, the local high school that specializes in tourism. We met with Ana Ruth’s ecotourism class. Lots of laughs as we and they introduced…

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best vacation ever in Peru

Volunteer Voices Peru

How to Have the Best Vacation Ever in Peru

How to have the best vacation ever in Peru, reflections on vacations by Peru Country Manager Daniel Salazar: I just came back from an amazing trip I will never forget. See, I went on a cruise to the Bahamas for my honeymoon. Just a…

Vietnam Volunteer Vacation

Conversational English Vietnam

Teach, Learn and Wage Peace in Vietnam

Enlarge Their Capabilities - And Your Perspective. Service adds meaningful dimensions to life. On a Vietnam volunteer vacation, you not only work with children and adults one-on-one, you expand their role in the country's future. As a volunteer,…

News and Updates China

China: Leave Your Mark on History

Working together, we change the world. Nowhere else can you be more effective! Teach English to Chinese students, and help Chinese English teachers improve their skills. Contribute to the common good that secures world peace.…

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Global Volunteers' Honeymoon

News and Updates

Global Volunteers “Conceived” on Honeymoon

Michele Gran and Bud Philbrook's unconventional honeymoon led to Global Volunteers' founding in 1984. That year, the Jamaica Service Program began with two teams. Since 1984, we've worked in more than 200 other communities worldwide. Global…

Group Volunteering, Service-Learning Montana

Service-Learning for Pharmacy Students in Montana

by Mindy Lull, Professor at Wegmans School of Pharmacy Three years ago, I had a wild idea to find a service trip in the United States where I could take a group of my students to experience a new culture, help a community in need, and grow…

Cultures and Traditions St Lucia

NOBEL LAUREATE WEEK / DAY: 17th – 23rd

St Lucia boasts of two Nobel Laureates, Sir Arthur Lewis, who was born in 1915 and obtained the Nobel Prize in Economics and Derek Walcott, born in 1930, who won the prestigious award for his work in Literature. Because both men were born…

Volunteer Voices St Lucia

I decided to leave “my comfort zone” and go to St. Lucia.

With one day to go before returning home, I have been reflecting on my volunteer experience. While Sue has been very enthusiastic about a Global Volunteer trip, I was unsure if I really wanted to go. After much thought, I decided…